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Description: The Miscellaneous American Letters and Papers (MALP), spanning from 1740-2006, document the personal and professional lives of people of African descent.
Names: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Collector)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1740 - 2006
Library locations: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division; Shelf locator: Sc MG 76
Topics: Abolitionists -- United States; African American cowboys; African American families; African American soldiers; African Americans -- History; African Americans -- Social conditions; Antislavery movements; Freed persons -- United States; Real estate business; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Registers of births, etc; Slave bills of sale; Slave trade -- United States; Slavery -- New York (State); Slavery -- West Indies; Enslaved persons; United States. Army -- African American troops -- History; World War, 1914-1918 -- African Americans; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions; United States -- Civil war; United States -- Race relations; Citizens' Protective League (New York, N.Y.); Benson, Oscar Jerome; Ring, Montague; Aldridge, Ira Frederick, 1807-1867; Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898; Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946; Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Kennedy, Florynce, 1916-2000; Reason, Patrick Henry, 1816-1898; Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments, Inc.; Poro College
Genres: Deeds; Diaries; Correspondence; Documents; Slave bills of sale; Registers
Notes: Content: Miscellaneous American Letters and Papers (MALP) is an artificial assortment of paper-based, non-photographic materials consisting of one to two folders for each collection. The topics covered include the arts, politics, literature, education, family, the military, business, and real estate. MALP is primarily organized in alphabetical order, with two large subject series, Slavery and Abolition, and the West Indies.
Physical Description: Extent: 5.13 linear feet (15 boxes)
Type of Resource: Text
Identifiers: Other local Identifier: Sc MG 76; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19971708; MSS Unit ID: 24901; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 2f7b0df0-c673-013b-0ab4-0242ac110003

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